R.K. Panda vs Steel Authority Of India on 12 May, 1994
We have carefully examined the above report of the Assistant Labour
Commissioner and his findings recorded therein. The facts disclosed in the
report and the findings recorded therein stand unrebutted. Though we have
heard at length the learned counsel appearing for the respondents in the
present' writ petitions including the, representative of the societies
supplying contract labour to Railways, they were not sale to point out to
us any valid reason why the present writ petitions should be allowed in
terms of the Order dated April 15, 1991 made by this Court in similar Writ
Petition No.277 of 1988, already adverted to by us, particularly when in
the matter of absorption of contract labour by a public undertaking on a
permanent basis, an order is made by a three-Judge Bench of this Court in
R.K. Pande and Other v. State Authority of India and Others, JT (1994) 4 SC
151 in the following terms: